Thursday, May 16, 2013
The event raises money for the American Cancer Society.
Last year, Tartan High School student Jason Telin raised $500 for the local Relay for Life. In November 2012, his grandfather was diagnosed with brain cancer. This year he has raised $1,400 for the event. The Relay for Life of Tartan High School is set for Friday, May 17. It’s year 11 for the event, which asks teams to walk relay-style around the track at high school in Oakdale to raise money for the American Cancer Society. At the 10-year mark, the local Relay for Life had raised about $1 million, said Christine Telin, Jason’s mom, who serves as a chaperone. So far this year, the 53 teams of 683 participants—mostly Tartan High School students—have raised more than $101,000. The local event is typically in the top five per capita in the …
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Thursday, April 11, 2013
Shows begin this weekend at the high school.
Tartan High School’s theater department will present several performances of Peter Pan, starting Friday. The musical shows are set for: From an event description on Oakdale Patch: Sir James Barrie's timeless tale of the boy who never grew up is reborn as a musical spectacular. As the lights over Wendy, John and Michael Darling's beds go out and the nursery of their London townhouse is thrown into darkness, a small light bounces across their nursery. Wendy's dollhouse is mysteriously illuminated and dresser drawers slide open and shut. And then, most mysterious of all, an unseen hand pushes the bedroom windows open and, wonder of wonders, Peter Pan comes soaring through — and into our hearts. Peter Pan, a boy who didn't want to grow up and …
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Shows will run April 12 through April 21.
The Tartan High School theater program will present Peter Pan the musical next month. Performances will be held in the Tartan High School auditorium, 828 Greenway Ave. N., in Oakdale. Residents are encouraged to “check out the high-flying action and adventure” during several upcoming shows: Also, there will be a dinner theater performance at 5 p.m. on April 19, catered by Tinucci’s. Tickets for that show cost $25 for adults, $23 for senior citizens and $16 for students. For the other shows, tickets cost $10 for adults, $8 for senior citizens and $6 for students. Tickets can be purchased online at the Tartan Theatre website or at the box office, one hour before each performance. Doors open 30 minutes prior to show time. All seating is …
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Thursday, February 21, 2013
Students at Tartan High School will be running a Postal Credit Union branch out of their school store. The new branch's ribbon cutting was held Wednesday morning.
Tartan High School is the home of Minnesota's first student-run Postal Credit Union. On Feb. 20, the representatives of the Postal Credit Union (PCU), Tartan students, school faculty and community members gathered to celebrate the opening the PCU Student Credit Union. This is the third student credit union branch that has opened in a Minnesota high school, but it is the first that will be run by students, said Craig Spreiter, a marketing teacher at the high school. "I don't think there is another branch that is so student-driven," Spreiter said. Spreiter dreamed of a student PCU at the high school since he first joined the teaching staff at Tartan. Four years ago, Platinum Bank in Oakdale installed an ATM, which opened the door to pursue…
Monday, February 11, 2013
Tartan High School students who launched a business last fall with the help of a local restaurant just completed their project with positive results.
Tartan High School students who launched a business last fall have some good news for their shareholders. Shareholders will in fact be getting a return on their investment. Students who are involved in the school's marketing class and the DECA School Store partnered with D:Spot in Maplewood to launch their own business to sell chicken wings to students at school. Marketing Teacher Craig Spreiter oversaw the co-curricular project. "The kids learned a lot and enjoyed keeping up with it, especially going through and crunching the numbers," Spreiter said after the project wrapped up. Related: Tartan Students Launch New Business with Help from a Local Restaurant Students sold D:Spot wings out of their school store on a pre-order basis. The …
Thursday, January 31, 2013
A Tartan High School student received a high-ranking leadership position for SkillsUSA.
A Tartan High School student will be serving as a state officer for SkillsUSA, according to a recent release. Maggie Mielzarek recently went through specialized training and interviewing skills to be selected as Secondary Vice-President for Minnesota SkillsUSA. She was previously chosen in December to serve as a state officer at large, but after more training moved up to a higher position. SkillsUSA is a national non-profit organization that serves teachers, high school students and college students preparing for careers in trade, technical and skilled service occupations. Elections for the position were held at the annual SkillsUSA Delegate Conference in Alexandria and Mielzarek campaigned and spoke to student members from across the …
Friday, January 25, 2013
Students recently participated in the District 2 DECA Conference in St. Paul.
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Tartan High School and North High School students participated in the District 2 DECA Conference at Crowne Plaza Hotel in St. Paul on Jan. 11. Tartan’s DECA chapter was one of the top winning chapters in the conference and had more than 90 percent of their students advance to the State Conference, which will take place March 4-6. North High School sent 55 marketing students to the conference. North High students were once again some of the top competitors. Nearly 600 students competed in 35 different marketing and business related events at the District Conference. In order to advance to the State Conference, each student or team needed to place in the Top 10 of their event. Listed below are Tartan’s winners and which event they will be …
Friday, January 4, 2013
This Tartan High School student reached a milestone in her high school basketball career.
Patch spoke with 17-year-old Ta'Kendra Elbert, a Tartan High School junior and member of the girls basketball team, who recently scored her 2,000th point this year at a game against the Winona Senior High School's Winhawks on Dec. 29. Elbert averages 35 points per game and has scored more than 40 points on more than one occassion. She has not scored less than 30 points this season. The Lady Titans are 8-3 overall and leading their Classic Suburban Conference by 2-0. Here's what Elbert had to say: Oakale Patch: How long have you been playing basketball? Elbert: I have been playing basketball since I was 6 years old. Oakale Patch: What made you want to get into that sport? Elbert: I was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois for the first …
Monday, December 17, 2012
Tartan High School held its choir concert Monday night.
Tartan High School hosted its Choir Concert Monday night, featuring an original Christmas tune. Among an variety of Christmas songs, Tartan's Concert Choir performed an original Christmas song at the high school tonight. The song was written by Judith Johnson, a Grant Township resident. Tracie Hanson, who direct's the concert choir, said she connected with Johnson through the Woodbury Community Orchestra, which has played with Tartan and North High School for 16 years at the school's yearly Masterworks concerts every fall. Johnson is a reitred art and home economics teacher and a pianist. Johnson wrote her Christmas song about her younger brother, Casey, who was stationed in Iraq. "She was thinking of him and missing him and wanted to …
Friday, October 19, 2012
Tartan High School and North High School will be participating in the 2012-13 Spotlight Musical Theatre Program.
Tartan High School and North High School are two of 56 schools that will be participating in the 2012-13 Spotlight Musical Theatre Program, the Hennepin Theatre Trust recently announced. The group of schools selected includes five new schools and nine from the greater Minnesota. Now in its eighth year, Spotlight is one of Trust’s education initiatives, which honors, supports, provides training and advocates for Minnesota high school musical theatre students and programs. Spotlight offers students the opportunity to work with local and national theatre educators and musical theatre professionals who offer training, insight through critical feedback and on-site school workshops. A group of evaluators assesses each production with …
Kim Utecht Prayfrock
9:16 am on Friday, March 1, 2013
What a great project! more ›